Stand-up Roller Coaster
The Stand-up Roller Coaster is a steel-tracked roller coaster type introduced in the original RollerCoaster Tycoon game.
Construction
Track has a tubular steel spine, connected to the inside edges of tubular steel running rails. Supports are large tubular steel posts. Trains are held on the track by wheels above, below and outside the running rails.
Special Track Elements
- Banked Curves
- Banked Helixes (RCT2 onwards)
- Vertical Loop
- Half Loop (may need to be researched)
- Corkscrew (may need to be researched)
- On-Ride Photo
Constraints
- Banked Curves - 30° banking (RCT1), 45° banking (RCT2)
- Maximum Track Slope - 60°
- Maximum Lift Hill Slope - 25°
- Maximum Height - 131 feet (RCT1), 120 feet (RCT2)
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Operating Modes
- Continuous circuit mode
- Powered launch (RCT1 and OpenRCT2 only)
- Reversed-Incline launched shuttle mode (RCT1 and OpenRCT2 only)
Pre-built designs
RollerCoaster Tycoon
- Red Baron (requires the Corkscrew track element)
- Venom Rail
Scenarios
- Shockwave (Megaworld Park)
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
- Mummy's Curse
- Red Baron
- Stampede!
- Venomous
Other Information
- Gives a more intense ride than a sit-down roller coaster, so the track requires careful design to avoid high G forces, especially lateral G's.
- This ride is called Stand-Up Steel Roller Coaster in RCT1 and Stand-Up Roller Coaster in RCT2 and RCT3.
Differences between games
In RCT1, the Stand-up Roller Coaster has a shallower banking angle at 30° instead of the usual 45° that the RCT2 rendition uses. Subsequently, this makes the RCT1 Stand-up Roller Coaster unable to use banked helixes. However, it also has access to the powered launch and reverse-incline launched shuttle operating modes, which the RCT2 version does not have. In OpenRCT2, as of the v0.4.10 release, the RCT1 Stand-up Roller Coaster makes a return, now named the Classic Stand-up Roller Coaster..
In Real Life
- This type of Stand-up coaster is made by the defunct Japanese company TOGO. This company made the first stand-up trains and also made many other revolutionizations to the coaster industry. The rides were notoriously rough and were driven away from being built due to the introduction of the much smoother Intamin stand-ups, Those Intamin Stand-ups paved the way for the even more unique Bolliger & Mabillard Stand-Ups. Both the Intamin and the B&M stand-ups were used in Six Flags parks but were not apart of the parks in RCT2. Riddler's Revenge was in Six Flags Magic Mountain (still operating).